Housing First
Description
All resources about housing first. Overlaps with the housing first tag, however, the resources in the collection are focused more directly on housing first than those in the tag.
Collection Items
The housing first model (HFM) fidelity index: designing and testing a tool for measuring integrity of housing programs that serve active substance users
The Housing First Model (HFM) is an approach to serving formerly homeless individuals with dually diagnosed mental health and substance use disorders regardless of their choice to use substances or engage in other risky behaviors. The model has been…
Pathways to Housing: Supported Housing for Street-Dwelling Homeless Individuals With Psychiatric Disabilities
This study examined the effectiveness of the Pathways to Housing supported housing program over a five-year period. Unlike most housing programs that offer services in a linear, step-by-step continuum, the Pathways program in New York City provides…
Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People With Mental Illness and Addiction
This manual explains phf practices in detail, including staffing patterns, finances, and operations. By laying bare the program, we hope that administrators, advocates, policy makers, educators, and others may find it useful for implementing (or…
Fidelity to the Housing First Model and Variation in Health Service Use Within Permanent Supportive Housing
Objective: Permanent supportive housing (PSH) programs are being implemented throughout the United States. This study examined the relationship between fidelity to the Housing First model and health service use among clients in PSH programs in…
A Randomized Trial Examining Housing First in Congregate and Scattered Site Formats
Objective: No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesized that CHF and SHF would be associated with a greater percentage of time stably housed as well as…
Housing First and Single-Site Housing
In 2002, the United States embraced the Housing First approach, which led to the widespread adoption of this approach in cities across the nation. This resulted in programmatic variations of Housing First and calls for clarity about the Housing First…
How to House the Homeless
Collection of essays/articles about homelessness; range of topics including preventing homelessness, serving people experiencing homelessness, reforms and policy.
Housing First and Access to Housing
CSH explanation of housing first and how to quickly move people into housing.
Data Visualization: The Evidence on Housing First
Visualization and links to external studies that provide evidence for and against housing first.
Housing First
Homeless Hub definition of housing first.
Understanding housing first
Housed people aren't homeless. Learn how to apply effective strategies for housing individuals and families. Your goals in this course will be to learn how to learn how to implement a Housing First approach in your own work and in your program or…
The Truth About Housing First
Call to action around fighting for housing first, with accompanying myth-busting/reminders that serve as a more advanced and nuanced description of what Housing First is.
Moving from rhetoric to reality: adapting Housing First for homeless individuals with mental illness from ethno-racial groups
Background: The literature on interventions addressing the intersection of homelessness, mental illness and race is scant. The At Home/Chez Soi research demonstration project is a pragmatic field trial investigating a Housing First intervention for…
Housing First, Cultural Competence and Ethno-Racial Communities
The Toronto Housing First (At Home/Chez Soi) Ethno-Racial Intensive Case Management (HF ER ICM) project[1] delivers Housing First ensuring culturally based options for ethno-racial groups experiencing homelessness. We relied on the lessons learned…
Housing First programs in congregate-site facilities: can one size fit all?
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken…
Pathways Housing First Institute
Website for the Pathways to Housing non-profit, who originally developed the Housing First model.
Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing
Explains the key characteristics of housing first, as applied to PSH models.
Housing First Checklist: Assessing Projects and Systems for a Housing First Orientation
Checklist of characteristics a program should have to be considered "housing first", intended as a tool to be used by those administering programs.
Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis
Objectives. We examined the longitudinal effects of a Housing First program for homeless, mentally ill individuals’ on those individuals’ consumer choice, housing stability, substance use, treatment utilization, and psychiatric symptoms. Methods. Two…